A lot of people were asking for Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) with Mate Desktop Environment pre-installed cd-image. The cd-image comes pre-installed with MATE desktop 1.5.5 version. **What is MATE?**
**MATE** (Spanish pronunciation: [\[ˈmate\]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Spanish "Help:IPA for Spanish")) is a [desktop environment](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment "Desktop environment") [forked](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software) "Fork (software)") from the now-unmaintained code base of [GNOME](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME "GNOME") 2. The name derives from [yerba mate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate "Yerba mate"), a species of [holly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly "Holly") native to subtropical South America used to prepare a beverage called [mate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage) "Mate (beverage)").The renaming is necessary to avoid conflicts with GNOME 3 components. Several GNOME applications have been forked and renamed:
**Application :**
- Caja – File manager (from [Nautilus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_(file_manager) "Nautilus (file manager)"))
- Pluma – Text editor (from [Gedit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedit "Gedit"))
- Eye of MATE – Image viewer (from [Eye of GNOME](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_GNOME "Eye of GNOME"))
- Atril – Document Viewer (from [Evince](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince "Evince"))
- Engrampa – Compression tool (from [File Roller](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Roller "File Roller"))
- MATE Terminal – Terminal emulator (from [GNOME Terminal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Terminal "GNOME Terminal"))
- Marco – Window manager (from [Metacity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacity "Metacity")
The cd-image is only available in x86\_64/amd64. If you want to install Mate Desktop Environment on 32-Bit/i386 system. enter the command given below in Terminal:
`su`
`yum install @mate-desktop`
**Application :**
- Caja – File manager (from [Nautilus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_(file_manager) "Nautilus (file manager)"))
- Pluma – Text editor (from [Gedit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedit "Gedit"))
- Eye of MATE – Image viewer (from [Eye of GNOME](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_GNOME "Eye of GNOME"))
- Atril – Document Viewer (from [Evince](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince "Evince"))
- Engrampa – Compression tool (from [File Roller](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Roller "File Roller"))
- MATE Terminal – Terminal emulator (from [GNOME Terminal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Terminal "GNOME Terminal"))
- Marco – Window manager (from [Metacity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacity "Metacity")
**Download (only direct download is available):**
[](http://bitchx.ca/Image-FedoraMateCompiz.iso)
**alternative link**
[](http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Image-FedoraMateCompiz.iso)
You can visit the project homepage: [Project homepage](http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora/MATE_desktop)
If you have any question leave a comment below
Enjoy!!!